Z NEWS
MAY 2017 VOLUME 45 - 5
The Official Newsletter of Z Owners of Northern California Blackhawk Z Gathering Saturday, May 20, 2017 See Flyer on page 5
Datslocos Car Show/ Swap Meet Saturday, May 27, 2017 See Flyer on page 6 Beautiful ZDay in Atascadero
By Ann Devor Northern California rocks! An estimated 1000 people ZCON Austin, Texas gathered in Atascadero, CA on Saturday, March 18 to see 170 Datsun and Nissan sports cars for Z Day California June 20-24, 2017 presented by SoCalZ and Fast Intentions. Northern California See Flyer on page 6 early Datsuns and Zs showed well with two ZONCers earning awards: Linda Williams, Second Place 280Z, for her unmodified light blue metallic pinstriped280Z ; and Rob Fuller of ZCar Garage, Best Sponsor Car, for Alex ZONC Annual Car Show M.’s right-hand drive 1973 Skyline GT. This low-slung sports car is frequently seen parked at Rob’s shop in San Jose. Also Saturday, July 22, 2017 walking away with top prizes were Matt A. and Curtis Lewis. JUNE ZNEWS & ZONC.ORG Matt, a loyal ZCG customer, won the top Best of Show prize (Continued on page 2)
Page ~ 2 ~ Flying Start, Welcome, Profiles Wanted What’s inside . . . Page ~ 3 ~ Beautiful ZDay in Atascadero/The Drive Down Page ~ 8 ~ Mines Road/Patterson Spring Run Page ~ 4 ~ Beautiful ZDay in Atascadero Page ~ 9 ~ Mines Road/Patterson Spring Run Page ~ 5 ~ Blackhawk Z Gathering Flyer Page ~ 10 ~ A.F. Rallye Summary, Birthdays, Tracks, Ad Rates Page ~ 6 ~ ZCON Flyer & DATSLOCOS Flyer Page ~ 11 ~ Calendar, ZMart For Sale Ad, ZMart Ad Info. Page ~ 7 ~ Mines Road/Patterson Spring Run Page ~ 12~ Working For You & Area Reps Z News May 2017
Flying PLEASE WELCOME Start NEW ZONC MEMBERS ...... By Jason Green John Benton 280Z Michael Schrammel 300ZX Clear blue skies. Twisty roads. And good company. Those are Stephen Schrammel 300ZX the key ingredients for a memorable run. And, boy, did we have Eric Tagliaboschi 240Z them in spades on April 9. The Mines Road/Mount Hamilton/Patterson Spring run, Profiles Wanted organized by Andrea Ivan, brought together members of the Z Let your fellow ZONCERS get to know you better! Owners of Northern California and Datslocos California, Your ZNEWS is starting up the member profile again as well as a complement of cars old and new, ranging from Pat and asking all members who would like to write a short Johnson’s Datsun 1600 to my Nissan 370Z. profile about themselves and their car(s). I mentioned in last month’s column that it felt fantastic to You can write about the things you have done to your be back on the road when ZONC headed to the California car, the ZONC events you like to attend, when you joined Automobile Museum in Sacramento. But this run? This run was ZONC, or your hobbies other than ZONC. nirvana. Please hold your article to no more than one page. Starting in Livermore, our route took us south along scenic Also include a picture of yourself and your car and send Mines Road. We made a pit stop at The Junction to celebrate to the ZNEWS editor at [email protected]. Andrea’s Nissan 300ZX, otherwise known as Z-Mario, completing 330,000 miles on mostly original parts. Before long though, we were back on the road and zooming up Highway 130 toward Lick Beautiful ZDay in Atascadero (Continued from front page) Observatory, where it was cold enough for snow to linger. for his purring green and white 1972 510 coupe, sounding The views from the top of Mount Hamilton were just as thrilling sweet and smooth like no other; and Curtis won First Place as the drive. What’s more, some of us got a peek at one of the giant 370Z, for his ‘Scarlett.’ telescopes inside the more than century-old observatory. Everyone loved the new location for ZDay in front of The run continued from there, but I had to break off. The fun Atascadero’s beautiful City Hall. The classic building had been was far from over, though. For miles, I had the downward descent heavily damaged in the 2003 San Simeon earthquake, but is to San Jose all to myself. I savored every corner until a minivan now fully renovated and graced by spouting fountains at all decided to ruin the fun a few miles from town. But even then, a four corners. Zs with exotic body upgrades were strategically smile was plastered on my face. parked in front of the City Hall steps. Chris Forsberg’s crazy That’s two wildly successful events in the book for 2017, and there’s more to come. Next up is the Z Gathering at the Blackhawk Automotive Museum on May 20 (see flier on page 5). This was one of our more popular events last year and I expect this year’s to be no different. The ollowingf week, DATSLOCOS will hold its 13th annual car show and swap meet on May 27 at 934 Perimeter Drive in Manteca. The cost to enter a car in the show is $10. Given the support Datslocos has shown ZONC, it would be fantastic to see ZONC return the favor. Thanks for reading. See you on the road soon. (Continued on page 3)
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Beautiful ZDay in Atascadero (Continued from page 2) 370Z drifter with rear air intake and radiator was prominently featured and Chris spoke to the crowd for a short while about his experiences creating his car and competing in the drift world. The ZDay car show stretched along both the north and south sides of City Hall and around a central park with a large Z Day 2017: The Drive Down By Moe Moscovitz fountain, big trees, green grass and plenty of park benches. Bill Hickman’s orange 240Z, Marshall Adams’ brown On a lovely early spring day, a small but spirited group of metallic 260Z, Linda’s 280Z and Matt A.’s 510 were some ZONC’ers met at the Windmill market in San Juan Bautista of the very few Datsuns to enter the show. Andrea Ivan’s for the drive down to Atascadero for Z Day 2017. cherry red ‘ZMario’ and Mo Moscovitz’s silver ‘1Z324Mo’ Bill Hickman brought his beautiful orange 240Z, while were parked in a line of stock to very modified Z32s on the the Z32 contingent was represented by Andrea Ivan and Mo northwest side of the parkway. But it was the south side of Moscovitz. the park that was packed with 350s, 370s and two GTRs. Marshall Adams and Bill Mstanich rolled through the Modifications of endless variety including outrageous paint, parking lot in their 260Z, but didn’t spot the rest of us and wheels and fenders, spoilers, splitters, hoods, hatches and went on ahead. Ann and Paul performed chase vehicle duties in their RAV 4 because Charlie, the Husky had a bad leg and couldn’t drive stick. (OK seriously, Charlie was recuperating from some leg surgery, and couldn’t be left alone). After a leisurely lunch and somewhat humorous driver’s meeting we headed south. Mo, who led initially, kept the others in his rear view, noticed that Bill was driving at a leisurely pace. We all found a rhythm and had a nice drive. About 75 miles into the journey, Mr. Hickman found his inner Bill, and in a flash of orange, flew by us all. Meanwhile, the lone Highway Patrolman we encountered was kept in abeyance by Ann, Paul, and Charlie. We stopped at the Camp Roberts rest area for a brief respite. There, in a “Twilight Zone” moment were Marshall and Bill. By that time, we were only 30 miles outside of Atascadero, so we all proceeded south to our motels, and met up later for dinner.
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Beautiful ZDay in Atascadero (Continued from page 3) mostly excellent engine work could be seen on these recent Z models. Vendor tents and a beer garden filled the area in front of the steps to City Hall. With a guy in a Godzilla costume and beautiful SoCalZ ladies walking around, it was like the Z circus was in town. And the weather was perfect, with morning fog clearing away for a warm afternoon. We hear that SoCalZ plans to put on another ZDay California next year. If you wanted to go but couldn’t make it, tough luck, but there should be another chance next year – don’t miss it!
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MINES ROAD/PATTERSON SPRING RUN this ride, and she told me she was going to plan a champagne By ZMario (as told to owner Andrea Ivan) celebration for this momentous occasion! I could not help Photos by Ann Devor, Jason Green, and Geno Guillen but hope she could control herself from driving me too much Finally, after all these years of transporting my energetic, beforehand, so I could hit this mileage point at the Junction, crazy triathlete owner and her bike to the base of this climb which I had never been to, but she has talked about with she is forever raving about, I got to do it too! And not only did great affection over the years. I finally get to do that climb but I got to ride over a few other When we got to the meeting place, there were lots of Zs! roads of other bike rides she has done while I am patiently 240s and one other 300ZX like me, but this one was older waiting in some parking lot in Patterson or Pleasanton for than me! Some I had met before, and this new group showed her to finish! up that I had heard about. A group called Datslocos! These I must say, that ever since we have joined this Z Club, were 510 Datsun’s, much older than me! I don’t remember I have gotten’ a lot of attention. We went to a Z Day in them, but my owner does, and she loves these little cars! Atascadero, and I got to meet all these other Zs! But none of Their owners have put in these racing type engines, so they them have more miles than I do on their original engines and go very fast, and they really are quite cute and I could see transmission, but they are all very nice cars just the same. My they are greatly loved also by their owners. owner is very proud of me, and has taken good care of me for For the record, here is a list of the cars and their owners: the last 20 years, so I have tried to show her that I have just as Ann Devor and Paul Gommel and Charlie in stealth much endurance as she does! vehicle, Linda Williams - 240Z, Joe and Frankie Armstead And so the time was approaching for this ride she - 260Z, Geno Guillen and son in a light blue - 510, Brian Lee designed, which is one of her favorite bike rides: Mines Road - 510, Rick Post green - 240Z, Maxwell Marcus - 510, Omar in Livermore to Mt. Hamilton, then to Patterson and back Nunez - beautiful orange 510, Jason Green - 370Z, Jason over Coral Hollow to Livermore. We both worried about ‘Towns’ Townsend - 510 (that lost oil cap and met us again the weather, but it cooperated. And the timing was great. I on Mt Hamliton) and girlfriend, Kim in Lexus (who found was approaching another milestone mileage point - 330,000 oil cap on the side of the road). Oscar Lemus – copper with miles! My owner could see this was going to happen during black hood 510 (that bottomed out on Del Puerto Canyon), Ken Clark and Mary Rozmajzl - red 240Z and brought
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cookies for everyone, Pat Johnson - red 1600 Roadster who brought a drone, David Snell - just bought his 300ZX a few days ago, and was greatly encouraged by my 330,000 miles as his only has 91,000miles! Not even broken yet! where I would hit 330,000 miles, and she kept saying, “It’s So, off we went, and I got to lead! This was very exciting going to be at the Junction.” leading 14 other cars! One of the 510 Datsun’s (Omar’s orange There were a couple of places where the road was one lane beauty) was behind me, and he kept me under control from due to storm damage and was controlled by stop signs. We going too fast from all the excitement, as I had to remember knew about these before we left because Linda and Ann I was the leader of the parade, and it is important to stay had driven the route the week before. At the first one, my together. owner got very excited and jumped out of me. “Seven miles Right when we turned onto Mines from Tesla, though, to go! We’re stopping at the Junction for the champagne something happened to one of the Datsun’s. His owner (Jason celebration!” ‘Towns’ Townsend) apparently had left the oil cap loose and I really got excited then, and pulled away, then was it fell off. So, off they went back to Livermore to get another reminded by the beautiful orange 510 Datsun I had to slow oil cap, but I had no doubt he would catch up with us later. down. We got to the Junction, and my poor owner was We continued up the road, and we must have been a aghast. “Oh no! 329,999 miles!” She jumped out of me again, sight to see, 15 Zs and 510 Datsun’s snaking their way up and said to Omar, the orange Datsun’s owner, “I’ll be back in this beautiful road, with lush green valleys full of beautiful a minute! I have to drive ZMario one more mile!” So off we wildflowers, and streams which haven’t appeared in over 10 went, with the Zs and Datsun’s in the rear wondering what years. My owner kept telling me how it hasn’t been like this was going on. We came back, and she was tooting my horn, in all the years she has been riding her bike up this mountain, pumping her fist out my T-tops. We broke open the bottle and it was a wonderful sight to see. She also kept saying how of champagne, and many people took lots of pictures of my nice it was to be driving me on this road for a change. All the odometer and me! I have really enjoyed all this attention. while she kept her eye on my odometer, and was calculating And my owner----she is so proud of me!
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I heard them say was “horseshoes” which they appeared to be enjoying immensely. We finally got back in our cars and proceeded up the Then back down Del Puerto Canyon Road (which my mountain. owner has ridden up before, of course) to Patterson, and Groups of birdwatchers were out, and were greatly amused this time the 510 Datsun’s took the lead. They are fast….too by our caravan, as well as the other few cars and cyclists on fast for my 330,000 miles to keep up with, that’s for sure! But the road. We got to the top, and, yes, those last six miles are they have fun, and you can see they like keeping their owners tough. Now I see why my owner is so tired when she returns happy also! on her bike to where I have been waiting all day for her at We got down to Patterson and said our goodbyes to a few, the bottom of Mines Road. From the top, we had a beautiful then proceeded on the back roads to Coral Hollow Road, part clear view, and my owner and a few others even got to see the of another bike ride where I have transported my owner to. telescope which was built in the 1800s which she had never Eventually we made it to Livermore, and honked and waived seen in all her times up there with her bike. And the 510 goodbye to the remaining 510 Datsun and Jason ‘Towns’ Datsun and his owner Jason who lost his oil cap rejoined us! (the one who lost his oil cap) and his girlfriend Kim who I knew he would catch up. actually found the oil cap (who was driving a Lexus! I’m sure We then proceeded down, and stopped at the Junction this Lexus felt a little out of place, but he seemed a good sport again so our owners could have lunch. We watched from our also) as we turned on Concannon to head home. parking spots and observed how our owners really have a What a great day, and what a wonderful way to celebrate good time together, and they do really love us! Some of the 330,000 miles!! I can’t wait until I hit 500,000!!! Datsun 510 owners played this strange looking game, which
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HAPPY May BIRTHDAYS Ann Devor
53rd April Fools Rallye Summary If you're not listed - it's because the Data Base Manager does not have your month of birth. By Bob Jenkins And you're wished a Happy Birthday! The weather was a warm 80 degrees, with a clear blue sky as rallyists from all over the bay area, arrived at the Snoopy Ice Arena in Santa Rosa, for Empire Sports Car Associations Virtual Track Walk Annual April Fools Rallye. The parking lot was soon by Marci Jenkins full of a wide array of very pretty sports cars of all ages. There speedsecrets.com/virtual-track-walks were Jaguars, BMW roadsters, Minis, Mustangs, Subarus, I received this information from Ross Bentley. Peter a Dodge Hellcat, a factory 5 Cobra, a Tesla X with its gull Krause and Ross of Speed Secrets, have put together wing doors, and a 1951 Ford Woodie. ZONCers present virtual track walk videos available for purchase of the fol- were Mike & Susan Keller in their white 350Z convertible, lowing circuits: ◆Indy Road Course ◆Road America Rallymaster Bob & Marci Jenkins and brought their orange ◆Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca ◆Road Altanta 350Z, and Robin Robert who left the240Z and husband, ◆Sonoma Raceway ◆Watkins Glen Larry, at home to work on a project, and brought home a third place trophy in Beginner Class. With all the rain Sonoma County received in the past BUSINESS DISPLAY AD RATES FOR several months the fields on the route around Windsor Z NEWS and Healdsburg were very green and Bob managed to find MONTHLY 6 MONTHS YEARLY a couple of roads that were freshly paved, a real treat these Full Page $55 $303 $495 days. It was a fun day for the rallyists and best of all the club managed to give the charity Canine Companions for 1/2 Page $35 $184 $315 Independence $650. 1/4 Page $25 $125 $200 Bus. Card $15 $68 $90 ZCON-Update Yoshihiko Matsuo, designer of the 240Z under Mr. K. will be in attendance. Matsuo-san and Mr. K. spearheaded the movement that brought us the original Z. Toshio Yamashita, designer of the 300ZX will also be joining us. Yama-san has given some amazing presentations in the past years regarding the development of the timeless 300ZX Z32. We are honored to have both of them join us this year!
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May TBA Z BASH 2017 www.thezstore.com 5-20 ZONC Blackhawk Meet & Greet see page 5 www.zonc.org 5-27 Datslocos 13th Carshow/Swapmeet, Manteca See Flyer on ZONC or Datslocos Facebook or page 6 6-02-04 Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival sonomaraceway.com/events/sonoma-historic- motorsports-festival 6-20-24 ZCONC Convention - see page 6 FOR SALE BY OWNER 6-23-25 NASCAR (Toyota) at Sonoma Raceway 1981 Datsun 280 ZX – T Top www.sonomaraceway.com/events/toyota-save-mart-350 119,000 Miles - Five Speed 7-13-15 Mt. Shasta 33rd Annual Datsun Meet All Original California Car mtshastaroadstermeet.311s.org Driver’s seat needs recovering Work on T-top covers 7-22 ZONC Car Show at Brisbane www.zonc.org Located in Santa Rosa, CA Owner retiring from driving 7-21-23 Hoopa Hillclimb $6,000 rscc.net Contact: Sharon, 707 545 1190 8-11-18 Booneville Speed Week [email protected] scta-bni.org 8-12-13 Monterey Pre-Reunion whatsupmonterey.com/events/monterey-car-week Z MART ADS 8-17-20 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion Members: no charge for nonbusiness ads mazdaraceway.com/rolex-monterey-motorsports-reunion (include membership # with ad) 9-21-24 Continental Monterey Grand Prix Nonmembers: $10.00 per ad or $20.00 with photo. mazdaraceway.com/continental-tire-monterey-grand-prix Please send via email with photos, if possible 9-15-17 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma Raceway (.gif or .jpg of 100 to 150 KB in size) to: sonomaraceway.com/events/gopro-grand-prix-of-sonoma [email protected] 10-12-15 Pirelli world Challenge Mazda Ads run for two months mazdaraceway.com/pirelli-world-challenge (unless you tell me to remove it after one month). Please include your complete address with ad. DEADLINE: is the 15th of the month, for inclusion in the next issue. Update Your Contact Information Please make check or money order This is a reminder to send the ZONC membership database an update when your contact information changes. To payable to: ZONC. do this, just send the Data Base Manager, Ann Devor an Please send ad with payment to: email at [email protected] listing your new contact BOB JENKINS, Z MART information. Your contact information for ZONC includes, your address, phone number and email address. Thank you. 2173 DOLEN CT. SANTA ROSA, CA 95401
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